Monday, February 26, 2018

Brass Partout

We heard Brass Partout's recording of the Böhme sextet today and I mentioned that although I liked their recording a lot, I didn't know anything about the group. I did find their website , which is only in German, and information about their recordings. If you are interested, I used Google translate to get a rough idea of what the website says. See below. 

Google translation of website pages:
Ensemble:

The continuous collaboration with the conductor and artistic director Hermann Bäumer led brass partout to the top of the German brass ensembles. In 1991, the members got to know each other while playing music together in the Federal Youth Orchestra and today they are engaged in renowned German orchestras. From the outset, brass partout demanded that its program design combine stylistically diverse works from different countries and epochs in thematic contexts. Based on original compositions, the repertoire is supplemented by own arrangements and world premieres of works written for brass partout.

The ensemble was u.a. to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Heidelberg Spring and the Brandenburg Summer Concerts. The concert with brass partout was selected and broadcast for the RBB's annual TV report on the Brandenburg Summer Concerts. Depending on the program, the ensemble performs in different sizes: from a septet line-up, such as Sibelius, to the classic Tentett line-up, to a percussion-extended line-up of 16 or more musicians.

The Swedish label BIS engaged brass partout for its edition of original works for brass ensemble. With "Playgrounds for Angels" (BIS-CD-1054), brass partout presented its debut CD in 2000 with works by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Jean Sibelius, Edvard Grieg and Knut Nystedt. This was followed in 2003 by the CD "Nokturno" (BIS-CD-1274) with works by Anatol Liadov, Oskar Böhme, Alexander Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Aram Khachaturian and Edison Denisov. In spring 2007, the new CD "Black Castles" (BIS-CD-1354) will be released with works by Edward Elgar, Arthur Butterworth, Derek Bourgeois, John Tavener, John Pickard and Mark-Anthony Turnage.

The continuous collaboration with the conductor and artistic director Hermann Bäumer led brass partout to the top of the German brass ensembles. In 1991, the members got to know each other while playing music together in the Federal Youth Orchestra and today they are engaged in renowned German orchestras. From the outset, brass partout demanded that its program design combine stylistically diverse works from different countries and epochs in thematic contexts. Based on original compositions, the repertoire is supplemented by own arrangements and world premieres of works written for brass partout.

The ensemble was u.a. to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Heidelberg Spring and the Brandenburg Summer Concerts. The concert with brass partout was selected and broadcast for the RBB's annual TV report on the Brandenburg Summer Concerts.
Depending on the program, the ensemble performs in different sizes: from a septet line-up, such as Sibelius, to the classic Tentett line-up, to a percussion-extended line-up of 16 or more musicians.

The Swedish label BIS engaged brass partout for its edition of original works for brass ensemble. With "Playgrounds for Angels" (BIS-CD-1054), brass partout presented its debut CD in 2000 with works by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Jean Sibelius, Edvard Grieg and Knut Nystedt. This was followed in 2003 by the CD "Nokturno" (BIS-CD-1274) with works by Anatol Liadov, Oskar Böhme, Alexander Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Aram Khachaturian and Edison Denisov. In spring 2007, the new CD "Black Castles" (BIS-CD-1354) will be released with works by Edward Elgar, Arthur Butterworth, Derek Bourgeois, John Tavener, John Pickard and Mark-Anthony Turnage.

Google Translation of Herman Baumer:

From the 2011/12 season, Hermann Bäumer has been chief conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Mainz and general music director of the State Theater. Previously, he held the position of music director of the City of Osnabrück with enormous success 7 years. The excellent reputation that Hermann Bäumer has introduced its not only solid, but also extremely creative work, is reflected not only in the great public response and in praise of the specialized press, but also in a variety of guest conductor at home and abroad. Along with symphony Osnabrück received Hermann Bäumer 2009 ECHO Klassik in the category of symphonic recording of the 20th century for the first part of the complete recording of the symphonies by Josef Bohuslav Foerster. In August 2007, Hermann Bäumer conducted the same orchestra concerts to Tehran - thus appeared for the first time since 1979 a Western orchestra in Iran.

Engagements Hermann Bäumer 2011 among others already on Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra for, the Robert Schumann Philharmonie Chemnitz or the Hofer Symphoniker. The National Youth Orchestra conducted Hermann Bäumer with Bruckner's Eighth Symphony on an extended tour of major German concert halls. The 2011/12 season at the Mainz State Theater Hermann Bäumer opened in September with the premiere of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

Born in Bielefeld Hermann Bäumer began six years ago, to play the piano. Later he also received violoncello and trombone lessons and then studied conducting in Detmold and Leipzig. From 1992 to 2003 he was a trombonist with the Berlin Philharmonic, with its brass ensemble he had a long-standing cooperation. Furthermore, Hermann Bäumer was among others at the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Oslo and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra at the desk and was at festivals such as the Rheingau Music Festival and the Heidelberg Spring guest. A special highlight was a Berlin performance of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire with Christine Schäfer.

In addition, Hermann Bäumer is the nation's most prized for its youth work, which manifests itself in working with numerous youth orchestras such as the National Youth Orchestra, the country's youth orchestras North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin and Rhineland-Palatinate. With the latter, he went in October 2007 on tour in France, Poland and Germany.

Has a special affinity Hermann Bäumer to exceptional musical and dramatic repertoire. So had in Osnabrück in 2005/06 Alex Nowitz 'Bestmannoper with great attention from the press and public premiered; and no less great attention Hans-Werner Henze Wundertheater and 2007/08 Gounod's La nun Sanglante was in the 2004/05 season on the board.

With the NDR Radio Philharmonic Hermann Bäumer took 2006 August Enna's Hot love for CPO, and with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra Jón Leif Edda I for the BIS label. Additional recordings includes the first recording of the said Wundertheater by Henze with the Osnabrück Symphony and Sinfonien Nos. 1 and 2 of Karl Holler with the Bamberg Symphony. Another project is the complete recording of the symphonies by Josef Bohuslav Foerster with the Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra, the first part was awarded an ECHO Klassik in 2009. The second part was published in January 2009 (MDG). In December 2009, d'Albert Seejungfräulein and Symphony, Op. 4 and appeared in summer 2010, Gounod's La nun Sanglante who was awarded the Prize of the German Record Critics 3/2010 (CPO).

Hermann Bäumer will represent classic Agency PR2.
www.pr2classic.de

Google tranlation of Musiker (Musicians):
 
Markus Finkler - principal trumpeter of the Magdeburg Philharmonic Yosemeh Adjei trumpet player in the Cologne Radio Orchestra
Raphael Mentzen trumpet player in the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin
Martin Hommel - trumpeter in the Philharmonic Orchestra Heidelberg
Mario Schlumpberger - trumpeter in the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg
Jochen Ubbelohde - solo horn in the Saxon Staatskapelle Dresden
Jörg Brückner - solo horn of the Dresdner Philharmonie
Julius Rönnebeck - horn player in the Saxon Staatskapelle Dresden
Andreas Klein - solo soprano in the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin
Tobias Unger - solo soprano is on the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart of the SWR
Axel Maucher - freelance trombonist in Kempten
Nils M. Schinker - freelance trombonist and architect in Dresden
Ulrich Oberschelp - bass trombonist in the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Keller - Tubist in the Staatskapelle Berlin
Alexander von Puttkamer - tubist in the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Jan Schlichte - drummer of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Wieland Welzel - solo timpanist of the Berliner PhilharmonikerFrankfurter Rundschau

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